Anne Hathaway is on a tireless quest to present herself as the thinking person's thinking movie star, as she discourses on particle physics in GQ. You might recall that her previous longterm boyfriend was Raffaello Follieri, who told her he was "the chief financial officer of the Vatican". Back then, interviewers would get the lecture about charity work being "the most untouted aphrodisiac", and Anne sat on the board of his charitable foundation, though never asked to see its accounts, and apparently never wondered why there were monsignor robes in their wardrobe. Alas, Raffaello is now in a US prison, having pleaded guilty to a multi-million dollar fraud, yet the FBI in effect deemed Anne so clueless they didn't even depose her, when anyone with her kind of access could be reasonably expected to be the material witness. Hello, Anne! There were monsignor robes in your wardrobe!

So as I say, people have the wrong idea if they think she's a dimbulb. Sure, she lost the audience at an awards acceptance speech last year when she talked about "process metaphysics", but Anne's nothing if not undaunted. "I'm interested in elementary particles," she tells GQ. "Any spare time I have, I bury my head in a physics textbook." I can't even be bothered calling you on that, so go on. "The elements at the atomic and subatomic level make up everything. You, me, the buildings, our souls, our minds. I'm reading a lot about Einstein. I like theories. I want to understand string theory. I'm dying for someone to explain quarks to me!" Anne can be reached care of her agent.